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Following the events of World War II, the Soviet Union and United States rivaled against one another in a political stalemate in order to avoid a nuclear war. The United States sought to oppose the Soviet Union, as the USSR became a nation of communism.
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On March 12, 1947, the Truman Doctrine had been established by President Harry S. Truman. In the policy, Truman sought to gain money from Congress in order to properly aid countries that were falling victim to communism. -
The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence; and the use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.
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On June 15, 1950, the Korean War began. In the Korean War, the United States supported South Korea, as they fended off against the communist North Korea.
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The Brown v. Board of Education is a court ruling in which segregating schools was considered unconstitutional, regardless of them being considered equal. Overturned the "Separate but equal" Plessy v. Ferguson -
Following the arrest of Rosa Parks (due to refusal to give up her seat on a bus) in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1st, 1955, Civil-Rights activists and the people of Montgomery decided to boycott busses until the Supreme Court ruled that it be unconstitutional to segregate public busses.
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Sputnik I, a USSR satellite, had been the first satellite to be launched into space. As a result, the space race had started between the Soviet Union and the United States, in which they sought to control/explore space. -
On October, 1962. An American U-2 spy plane had captured images of Soviet Union missiles being built on Cuban land, therefore causing conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Especially, since the missiles were capable of hitting the United States. -
On August 28, 1963. more than 250,000 blacks and whites marched into the nation's capital of Washington. There, they demanded the immediate passage of the new civil rights bill. -
During a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, JFK had been assassinated by a sniper. Afterwards, Lyndon B. Johnson would become the 36th president, fulfilling some orders that Kennedy couldn't see through. -
On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed by congress, prohibiting the discrimination of race, skin, religion, sex, or origin. -
The Tet offensive had been a military defeat for the communist countries during the cold war. The enemy failed to keep any captured territory and the Viet Cong's southern infrastructure had been nearly wiped out.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated at Memphis, Tennessee. A day before the assassination he had given his famous speech, "I've been to the mountaintop". -
United States Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, had been assassinated on June 6, 1968. -
During the Chicago Convention, thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam.
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On June 20, 1969, the spaceship known as Apollo 11 made it to the moon. Aboard the ship were astronaut Neil Armstrong and Col. Edwin E. Aldrin, becoming the first people to walk on moon; televised landing, space race against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
On June 17, 1972, there was break in on the Watergate in Washington. It is suspected that white house officials order the break-in. -
On January 22, 1973, the court ruling Roe v. Wade determined that The United States generally protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion. -
Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans. The members were held for well over 444 days, and some of the Americans were kilt by the Iranian students.